Tag: radiation chemistry
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Space Radiation May Create Some Organic Molecules Found in Enceladus Plumes
New insight into Enceladus’s chemistry Scientists are reconsidering how organic molecules detected in plumes erupting from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus should be interpreted. A recent study proposes that some compounds previously thought to come from a subsurface ocean could instead be produced by natural radiation near the moon’s surface. While this doesn’t rule out a…